Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2025

  • Jung, K., Akiyama, R., Nie, J., Nitta, M., Hamaya, N.-B., Qureshi, N., Bhavani, S., Wicker, T., Keller, B., Kishii, M., Nasuda, S., & Shimizu, K. K. (2025). Unveiling yellow rust resistance in the near-Himalayan region: insights from a nested association mapping study TAG. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Theoretische Und Angewandte Genetik, 138, 135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-025-04886-z
  • Hou, X. (2025). Downstream Signalling Pathways of LRX1-Mediated Cell Wall Integrity Sensing during Root Hair Development (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-276567
  • Isaksson, J., Heuberger, M., Amhof, M., Kunz, L., Bourras, S., & Keller, B. (2025). Interactions of Wheat Powdery Mildew Effectors Involved in Recognition by the Wheat NLR PM3 Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 38, 861–868. https://doi.org/10.1094/mpmi-05-25-0050-sc

• 2024

  • Sotiropoulos, A. G., Sánchez-Martín, J., Widrig, V., Isaksson, J., Bernasconi, Z., Koller, T., Bearth, G., Herren, G., Wicker, T., & Keller, B. (2024). A fictional field case study to understand the genetic basis of host-fungal pathogen interactions using the wheat powdery mildew-wheat pathosystem Journal of Biological Education, 58, 1022–1034. https://doi.org/10.1080/00219266.2022.2147574
  • Bernasconi, Z. M. L. B. (2024). Race-Specific Resistance Mechanisms and Evasion from Recognition: Insights from the Wheat-Powdery Mildew Pathosystem (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-263214
  • Herold, L. (2024). Characterization of Receptor Kinases Involved in Plant-Pathogen Interactions (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-262039
  • Kaufmann, M. (2024). Unravelling the Impact of Chitin Soil Amendment on Plant Using Omics Technologies with Lettuce as a Model Organism (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-262041
  • Makechemu, M. (2024). Molecular Insights Into the Perception of Fungal-Derived Molecular Patterns and Its Impact on Disease Resistance (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-262044
  • Leber, R. (2024). Genetic Diversity and Powdery Mildew Resistance of Bread Wheat Landraces (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-261321
  • Koller, T., Camenzind, M., Jung, E., Brunner, S., Herren, G., Armbruster, C., & Keller, B. (2024). Pyramiding of transgenic immune receptors from primary and tertiary wheat gene pools improves powdery mildew resistance in the field Journal of Experimental Botany, 75, 1872–1886. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad493
  • Camenzind, M., Koller, T., Armbruster, C., Jung, E., Brunner, S., Herren, G., & Keller, B. (2024). Breeding for durable resistance against biotrophic fungal pathogens using transgenes from wheat Molecular Breeding, 44, 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11032-024-01451-2

• 2023

  • Manser, B., Zbinden, H., Herren, G., Steger, J., Isaksson, J., Bräunlich, S., Wicker, T., & Keller, B. (2023). Wheat zinc finger protein TaZF interacts with both the powdery mildew AvrPm2 protein and the corresponding wheat Pm2a immune receptor Plant Communications, online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2023.100769
  • Cao, Y., Kümmel, F., Logemann, E., Gebauer, J. M., Lawson, A. W., Yu, D., Uthoff, M., Keller, B., Jirschitzka, J., Baumann, U., Tsuda, K., Chai, J., & Schulze-Lefert, P. (2023). Structural polymorphisms within a common powdery mildew effector scaffold as a driver of coevolution with cereal immune receptors Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, e2307604120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307604120
  • Kunz, L., Sotiropoulos, A. G., Graf, J., Razavi, M., Keller, B., & Müller, M. C. (2023). The broad use of the Pm8 resistance gene in wheat resulted in hypermutation of the AvrPm8 gene in the powdery mildew pathogen BMC Biology, 21, 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-023-01513-5

• 2022

  • Sotiropoulos, A. G., Arango-Isaza, E., Ban, T., Barbieri, C., Bourras, S., Cowger, C., Czembor, P. C., Ben-David, R., Dinoor, A., Ellwood, S. R., Graf, J., Hatta, K., Helguera, M., Sánchez-Martín, J., McDonald, B. A., Morgounov, A. I., Müller, M. C., Shamanin, V., Shimizu, K. K., … Wicker, T. (2022). Global genomic analyses of wheat powdery mildew reveal association of pathogen spread with historical human migration and trade Nature Communications, 13, 4315. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31975-0
  • Müller, M. C., Kunz, L., Schudel, S., Lawson, A. W., Kammerecker, S., Isaksson, J., Wyler, M., Graf, J., Sotiropoulos, A. G., Praz, C. R., Manser, B., Wicker, T., Bourras, S., & Keller, B. (2022). Ancient variation of the AvrPm17 gene in powdery mildew limits the effectiveness of the introgressed rye Pm17 resistance gene in wheat Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, e2108808119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108808119
  • Krattinger, S. G., & Keller, B. (2022). Oat genome — sequence of a superfood Nature Plants, 8, 602–603. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01169-z
  • Gaurav, K., Arora, S., Silva, P., et al, Sánchez-Martín, J., Widrig, V., & Keller, B. (2022). Population genomic analysis of Aegilops tauschii identifies targets for bread wheat improvement Nature Biotechnology, 40, 422–431. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01058-4
  • Manser, B. (2022). Molecular characterization of Avr function and plant recognition on the wheat powdery mildew effector AvrPm2 (Dissertation, University of Zurich)
  • Herzog, C. (2022). Impact of agricultural intensification on soil biogeochemistry and multifunctionality (Dissertation, University of Zurich)
  • Sotiropoulos, A. G. (2022). Global population analyses of wheat powdery mildew using whole genome sequencing data (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

• 2021

  • Abrouk, M., Athiyannan, N., Müller, T., Pailles, Y., Stritt, C., Roulin, A. C., Chu, C., Liu, S., Morita, T., Handa, H., Poland, J., Keller, B., & Krattinger, S. G. (2021). Population genomics and haplotype analysis in spelt and bread wheat identifies a gene regulating glume color Communications Biology, 4, 375. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01908-6
  • Gimeno, A., Stanley, C. E., Ngamenie, Z., Hsung, M.-H., Walder, F., Schmieder, S. S., Bindschedler, S., Junier, P., Keller, B., & Vogelgsang, S. (2021). A versatile microfluidic platform measures hyphal interactions between Fusarium graminearum and Clonostachys rosea in real-time Communications Biology, 4, 262. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01767-1
  • Müller, M. C., Kunz, L., Graf, J., Schudel, S., & Keller, B. (2021). Host Adaptation Through Hybridization: Genome Analysis of Triticale Powdery Mildew Reveals Unique Combination of Lineage-Specific Effectors Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 34, 1350–1357. https://doi.org/10.1094/mpmi-05-21-0111-sc
  • Kolodziej, M. C., Singla, J., Sánchez-Martín, J., Zbinden, H., Šimková, H., Karafiátová, M., Doležel, J., Gronnier, J., Poretti, M., Glauser, G., Zhu, W., Köster, P., Zipfel, C., Wicker, T., Krattinger, S. G., & Keller, B. (2021). A membrane-bound ankyrin repeat protein confers race-specific leaf rust disease resistance in wheat Nature Communications, 12, 956. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20777-x
  • Bräunlich, S., Koller, T., Glauser, G., Krattinger, S. G., & Keller, B. (2021). Expression of the wheat disease resistance gene Lr34 in transgenic barley leads to accumulation of abscisic acid at the leaf tip Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 166, 950–957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2021.07.001
  • Riar, A. K., Chhuneja, P., Keller, B., & Singh, K. (2021). Mechanism of leaf rust resistance in wheat wild relatives, Triticum monococcum L. and T. boeoticum L Plant Genetic Resources, 19, 320–327. https://doi.org/10.1017/s147926212100037x
  • Sánchez-Martín, J., & Keller, B. (2021). NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 62, 102053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102053
  • Manser, B., Koller, T., Praz, C. R., Roulin, A. C., Zbinden, H., Arora, S., Steuernagel, B., Wulff, B. B. H., Keller, B., & Sánchez‐Martín, J. (2021). Identification of specificity‐defining amino acids of the wheat immune receptor Pm2 and powdery mildew effector AvrPm2 The Plant Journal, 106, 993–1007. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15214
  • Rabanus-Wallace, M. T., Hackauf, B., Mascher, M., Lux, T., Wicker, T., Gundlach, H., Baez, M., Houben, A., et al, Praz, C. R., & Keller, B. (2021). Chromosome-scale genome assembly provides insights into rye biology, evolution and agronomic potential Nature Genetics, 53, 564–573. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00807-0
  • Yang, P., Scheuermann, D., Kessel, B., Koller, T., Greenwood, J. R., Hurni, S., Herren, G., Zhou, S., Marande, W., Wicker, T., Krattinger, S. G., Ouzunova, M., & Keller, B. (2021). Alleles of a wall‐associated kinase gene account for three of the major northern corn leaf blight resistance loci in maize The Plant Journal, 106, 526–535. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15183
  • Desiderio, F., Bourras, S., Mazzucotelli, E., Rubiales, D., Keller, B., Cattivelli, L., & Valè, G. (2021). Characterization of the resistance to powdery mildew and leaf rust carried by the bread wheat cultivar Victo International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22, 3109. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22063109
  • Hewitt, T., Müller, M. C., Molnár, I., Mascher, M., Holušová, K., Šimková, H., Kunz, L., Zhang, J., Li, J., Bhatt, D., Sharma, R., Schudel, S., Yu, G., Steuernagel, B., Periyannan, S., Wulff, B., Ayliffe, M., McIntosh, R., Keller, B., … Zhang, P. (2021). A highly differentiated region of wheat chromosome 7AL encodes a Pm1a immune receptor that recognizes its corresponding AvrPm1a effector from Blumeria graminis New Phytologist, 229, 2812–2826. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17075
  • Sánchez-Martín, J., Widrig, V., Herren, G., Wicker, T., Zbinden, H., Gronnier, J., Spörri, L., Praz, C. R., Heuberger, M., Kolodziej, M. C., Isaksson, J., Steuernagel, B., Karafiátová, M., Doležel, J., Zipfel, C., & Keller, B. (2021). Wheat Pm4 resistance to powdery mildew is controlled by alternative splice variants encoding chimeric proteins Nature Plants, 7, 327–341. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00869-2
  • Herger, A. (2021). Analysis of LRXs signaling complex and extensin domain function in Arabidopsis thaliana (Dissertation, University of Zurich)
  • Bräunlich, S. (2021). Wheat disease resistance gene Lr34 and the role of abscisic acid (Dissertation, University of Zurich)
  • Poretti, M. (2021). Comparative genomics and transcriptomics of Triticeae (Dissertation, University of Zurich)
  • Kolodziej, M. C. (2021). The use of a high-quality genome from the Swiss winter wheat line ArinaLrFor: genomic structure and isolation of leaf rust resistance genes (Dissertation, University of Zurich)
  • Müller, M. C. (2021). Genomic and genetic analysis of host and cultivar adaption in the cereal powdery mildew pathosystem (Dissertation, University of Zurich)

• 2020

  • Walkowiak, S., Gao, L., Monat, C., et al, Kolodziej, M. C., Copetti, D., Krattinger, S. G., Keller, B., Wicker, T., Halstead-Nussloch, G., Paape, T., Shimizu-Inatsugi, R., & Shimizu, K. K. (2020). Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding Nature, 588, 277–283. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2961-x
  • Lindner, S., Keller, B., Singh, S. P., Hasenkamp, Z., Jung, E., Müller, M. C., Bourras, S., & Keller, B. (2020). Single residues in the LRR domain of the wheat PM3A immune receptor can control the strength and the spectrum of the immune response The Plant Journal, 104, 200–214. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14917
  • Gimeno, A., Kägi, A., Drakopoulos, D., Bänziger, I., Lehmann, E., Forrer, H., Keller, B., & Vogelgsang, S. (2020). From laboratory to the field: biological control of Fusarium graminearum on infected maize crop residues Journal of Applied Microbiology, 129, 680–694. https://doi.org/10.1111/jam.14634
  • Steuernagel, B., Witek, K., Krattinger, S. G., Ramirez-Gonzalez, R. H., Schoonbeek, H., Yu, G., Baggs, E., Witek, A. I., Yadav, I., Krasileva, K. V., Jones, J. D. G., Uauy, C., Keller, B., Ridout, C. J., & Wulff, B. B. H. (2020). The NLR-annotator tool enables annotation of the intracellular immune receptor repertoire Plant Physiology, 183, 468–482. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.19.01273
  • Lindner, S. (2020). Insights into the Molecular Mechanisms that Underlie AVR Recognition and Immune Response of the Wheat NLR-Type Receptor PM3A (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-199495
  • Schaefer, L. K., Parlange, F., Buchmann, G., Jung, E., Wehrli, A., Herren, G., Müller, M. C., Stehlin, J., Schmid, R., Wicker, T., Keller, B., & Bourras, S. (2020). Cross-kingdom RNAi of pathogen effectors leads to quantitative adult plant resistance in wheat Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, 253. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00253

• 2019

  • Bourras, S., Kunz, L., Xue, M., Praz, C. R., Müller, M. C., Kälin, C., Schläfli, M., Ackermann, P., Flückiger, S., Parlange, F., Menardo, F., Schaefer, L. K., Ben-David, R., Roffler, S., Oberhaensli, S., Widrig, V., Lindner, S., Isaksson, J., Wicker, T., … Keller, B. (2019). The AvrPm3-Pm3 effector-NLR interactions control both race-specific resistance and host-specificity of cereal mildews on wheat Nature Communications, 10, 2292–2308. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10274-1
  • Krattinger, S. G., Kang, J., Bräunlich, S., Boni, R., Chauhan, H., Selter, L. L., Robinson, M. D., Schmid, M. W., Wiederhold, E., Hensel, G., Kumlehn, J., Sucher, J., Martinoia, E., & Keller, B. (2019). Abscisic acid is a substrate of the ABC transporter encoded by the durable wheat disease resistance gene Lr34 New Phytologist, 223, 853–866. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15815
  • Sánchez-Martín, J., & Keller, B. (2019). Contribution of recent technological advances to future resistance breeding TAG. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Theoretische Und Angewandte Genetik, 132, 713–732. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-019-03297-1
  • Müller, M. C., Praz, C. R., Sotiropoulos, A. G., Menardo, F., Kunz, L., Schudel, S., Oberhänsli, S., Poretti, M., Wehrli, A., Bourras, S., Keller, B., & Wicker, T. (2019). A chromosome-scale genome assembly reveals a highly dynamic effector repertoire of wheat powdery mildew New Phytologist, 221, 2176–2189. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15529
  • Milner, S. G., Jost, M., Taketa, S., et al, Herren, G., Müller, T., Krattinger, S. G., & Keller, B. (2019). Genebank genomics highlights the diversity of a global barley collection Nature Genetics, 51, 319–326. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0266-x
  • Koller, T., Brunner, S., Herren, G., Sanchez-Martin, J., Hurni, S., & Keller, B. (2019). Field grown transgenic Pm3e wheat lines show powdery mildew resistance and no fitness costs associated with high transgene expression Transgenic Research, 28, 9–20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11248-018-0099-5

• 2018

  • Li, B., Förster, C., Robert, C. A. M., Züst, T., Hu, L., Machado, R. A. R., Berset, J.-D., Handrick, V., Knauer, T., Hensel, G., Chen, W., Kumlehn, J., Yang, P., Keller, B., Gershenzon, J., Jander, G., Köllner, T. G., & Erb, M. (2018). Convergent evolution of a metabolic switch between aphid and caterpillar resistance in cereals Science Advances, 4, eaat6797. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat6797
  • Bourras, S., Praz, C. R., Spanu, P. D., & Keller, B. (2018). Cereal powdery mildew effectors: a complex toolbox for an obligate pathogen Current Opinion in Microbiology, 46, 26–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2018.01.018
  • Yang, P., Praz, C., Li, B., Singla, J., Robert, C. A. M., Kessel, B., Scheuermann, D., Lüthi, L., Ouzunova, M., Erb, M., Krattinger, S. G., & Keller, B. (2018). Fungal resistance mediated by maize wall‐associated kinase Zm WAK‐RLK1 correlates with reduced benzoxazinoid content New Phytologist, 221, 976–987. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15419
  • Appels, R., Eversole, K., Feuillet, C., et al, Keller, B., Singh, K., Chhuneja, P., Gupta, O. P., Jindal, S., Kaur, P., Malik, P., Sharma, P., & Yadav, B. (2018). Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome Science, 361, eaar7191. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar7191
  • Koller, T., Brunner, S., Herren, G., Hurni, S., & Keller, B. (2018). Pyramiding of transgenic Pm3 alleles in wheat results in improved powdery mildew resistance in the field TAG. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Theoretische Und Angewandte Genetik, 131, 861–871. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-017-3043-9
  • McNally, K. E., Menardo, F., Lüthi, L., Praz, C. R., Müller, M. C., Kunz, L., Ben-David, R., Chandrasekhar, K., Dinoor, A., Cowger, C., Meyers, E., Xue, M., Zeng, F., Gong, S., Yu, D., Bourras, S., & Keller, B. (2018). Distinct domains of the AVRPM3A2/F2 avirulence protein from wheat powdery mildew are involved in immune receptor recognition and putative effector function New Phytologist, 218, 681–695. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15026
  • Sucher, J., Menardo, F., Praz, C. R., Boni, R., Krattinger, S. G., & Keller, B. (2018). Transcriptional profiling reveals no response of fungal pathogens to the durable, quantitative Lr34 disease resistance gene of wheat Plant Biology, 67, 792–798. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.12797
  • Müller, T., Schierscher-Viret, B., Fossati, D., Brabant, C., Schori, A., Keller, B., & Krattinger, S. G. (2018). Unlocking the diversity of genebanks: whole-genome marker analysis of Swiss bread wheat and spelt TAG. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Theoretische Und Angewandte Genetik, 131, 407–416. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-017-3010-5
  • Deppe, J. (2018). Physiological characterization of the wheat ABC transporter Lr34 (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-153152
  • Thind, A. K. (2018). Cultivar-specific long-range chromosome assembly permits rapid gene isolation and high-quality comparative analysis in hexaploid wheat (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-159968
  • Rövekamp, M. (2018). Insights from Marchantia polymorpha into the evolutionary development of land plant sexual reproduction (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-147580

• 2017

  • Bucher, R., Veyel, D., Willmitzer, L., Krattinger, S. G., Keller, B., & Bigler, L. (2017). Combined GC- and UHPLC-HR-MS based metabolomics to analyze durable anti-fungal resistance processes in cereals Chimia, 71, 156–159. https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2017.156
  • McNally, K. (2017). Molecular and evolutionary studies of race-specific avirulence factors from wheat powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici) (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-147577

• 2016

  • Krattinger, S. G., Sucher, J., Selter, L. L., Chauhan, H., Zhou, B., Tang, M., Upadhyaya, N. M., Mieulet, D., Guiderdoni, E., Weidenbach, D., Schaffrath, U., Lagudah, E. S., & Keller, B. (2016). The wheat durable, multipathogen resistance gene Lr34 confers partial blast resistance in rice Plant Biotechnology Journal, 14, 1261–1268. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.12491

• 2012

  • Burla, B. J. (2012). Evolutionary analysis of abcc transporters and characterization of vacuolar transport mechanisms of the glucosylated phytohormone absicisic acid (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-74389

• 2011

  • Zeller, S. L. (2011). Ecology of genetically modified wheat: performance, resistance costs, mixture effects and gene flow [Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften]. (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-61248

• 2009

  • Sudre, D. (2009). Identification of membrane proteins involved in heavy metal detoxification and transport in Arabidopsis thaliana (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-31284

• 2006

  • Herrmann, D. (2006). Characterisation of genetic diversity and molecular dissection of seed yield and persistence in Swiss Mattenklee (Trifolium pratense L.) (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-163419
  • Abderhalden, O. (2006). Analysis of epidermis and mesophyll-specific transcript accumulation after syringolin A application in powdery mildew-inoculated wheat leaves (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-163491
  • Bossolini, E. (2006). Marker development for the durable leaf rust resistance gene Lr34 of wheat using sequence information from rice, Aegilops tauschii and Brachypodium sylvaticum (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-163539

• 2005

  • Pasquer, F. (2005). Effects of plant protection compounds on wheat gene expression (Dissertation, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-163299